From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751474AbaBHHvp (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Feb 2014 02:51:45 -0500 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:13482 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751312AbaBHHv2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Feb 2014 02:51:28 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.95,805,1384329600"; d="scan'208";a="451781100" From: Andi Kleen To: mmarek@suse.cz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen Subject: [PATCH 2/6] kbuild: Put kallsyms into own section Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 08:50:36 +0100 Message-Id: <1391845840-28514-2-git-send-email-ak@linux.intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.5.2 In-Reply-To: <1391845840-28514-1-git-send-email-ak@linux.intel.com> References: <1391845840-28514-1-git-send-email-ak@linux.intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Put the kallsyms information into an own .kallsyms section. This makes it easier to patch the kallsyms inside the executable. Otherwise it shouldn't change anything. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen --- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 4 ++++ scripts/kallsyms.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index bc2121f..6214f18 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -280,6 +280,10 @@ \ TRACEDATA \ \ + .kallsyms : AT(ADDR(.kallsyms) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ + *(.kallsyms) \ + } \ + \ /* Kernel symbol table: Normal symbols */ \ __ksymtab : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___ksymtab) = .; \ diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c index 56f5986..ceef756 100644 --- a/scripts/kallsyms.c +++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c @@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ static void write_src(void) printf("#define ALGN .align 4\n"); printf("#endif\n"); - printf("\t.section .rodata, \"a\"\n"); + printf("\t.section .kallsyms, \"a\"\n"); /* Provide proper symbols relocatability by their '_text' * relativeness. The symbol names cannot be used to construct -- 1.8.5.2